Poverty

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Robert P. Murphy
The actual data do not support the breathless claims that rolling back ObamaCare will literally kill many thousands of Americans.
Ryan McMaken

If capitalists have their way, we may be looking at a future of 20-hour work weeks while producing a higher standard of living.

Ludwig von Mises
Labor is appraised like a commodity not because the entrepreneurs are cruel but because they are subject to the supremacy of the pitiless consumers.
Blaine Conzatti
Higher energy costs mean less money for raising wages for workers, hiring new employees, purchasing more inventory, or investing in capital.
Ryan McMaken

Socialists tell us that socialism won't work unless it's total and pure. Fortunately, even partial and halfway pro-market reforms work quite well.

Robert Fellner
Wages spring directly from, and are proportional to, the degree in which a job creates wealth by helping to satisfy an unmet need.
Ryan McMaken
The Trump budget proposes to increase spending on Medicaid by slightly less that what had been earlier proposed. In DC-speak, this is called a "cut."
Ryan McMaken
What if the US welfare state was broken up into 50 pieces and the states dole out all that money to low-income residents instead?

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